Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Times and thrones have changed since Walter Bagehot, the 19th century British political analyst, said of royalty: "In its mystery is its life. We must not let daylight in upon magic." Royal houses, which once saw outside light only when their occupants were wedded, beheaded, deported or deposed, today are...
RUMORS. Gossip and misinformation can as easily create a prejudicial threat to defendants as news accounts. Disagreeing last week, Simants' prosecutor, Milton C. Larson, argued before the court that "a potential juror would much more likely put aside something Mrs. Jones told her than what she read in the...
Burlingham's article, "They've All Gone to Look for America," attempts to find out what activists are doing today. Burlingham's thesis is stated between the lines: "I had heard from other friends that changes were taking place in America." He then goes on to document some of these...
This basic political bias is what Mother Jones will probably be offering in its articles in the future. What's effective, what will coalesce into a new majority of slow reform based not on what people envision, but what they can work out in a compromise with unstated beliefs working...
Mother Jones, by the way, was Mary Harris Jones, who was an organizer, "starting unions, running strikes, fighting for prison reform, helping found the IWW, supporting the Mexican Revolution, and even sending weeks at a time in prison, a victim of the now-forgotten American class war." She called herself...